Tag: Books and literature
Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis
MEXICO CITY — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive”...
Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge
NEW YORK — A. Stella Oloye, a Washington, D.C-based writer working on an Afrofuturism novel, was at a low point this spring when she...
Richard Robinson, longtime Scholastic CEO, dead at 84
NEW YORK — Richard Robinson, who as the longtime head of Scholastic Inc. presided over such bestsellers as J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter” novels and...
Publisher removes Anne Frank passage from Hilderbrand novel
NEW YORK — Elin Hilderbrand has asked that a reference to Anne Frank in her new novel be taken out after numerous online readers...
Canadiens Game 1 win tempered by late hit on Jake Evans
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Eric Staal scored early goals and Montreal beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-3 on Wednesday night in Game 1...
23 writers nationwide will serve as Poets Laureate Fellows
NEW YORK — From Charleston, South Carolina, to San Mateo County in California, poets from around the country have been chosen to serve as...
R.J. Palacio’s ‘Pony’ to be published in September
NEW YORK — R.J. Palacio's next book is a world apart from her million-selling debut “Wonder.”
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Leibovitz photo of Indra Nooyi to appear on Nooyi’s memoir
NEW YORK — After decades of photographing rock stars, movie stars and heads of state, Annie Leibovitz has added a business leader to her...
David Diop wins International Booker Prize with WWI story
LONDON — A harrowing but poetic tale of comradeship, colonialism and the horrors of war won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday.
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Review: Taylor Jenkins Reid soars with ‘Malibu Rising’
NEW YORK — “Malibu Rising,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
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